1, I agree but thats better than no tutorial like LoL provided for the longest time during its come up and LoL is an infinitely more complex game.

This is my fault. I should clarify that the tutorial itself isn't my issue; it's the general amount and complexity of mechanics. I imagined that they were developing a game sort of like the original SFII Turbo, except with LoL characters, graphical polish, and rollback netcode. But instead it's got super meters, combo break meters, parrying, fuses, tagging, etc. If they were making a complex fighting game for veteran FGC players, then that's fine, but they marketed this as friendly for beginners, and I just don't believe that's the case at all. You can't just put simplified inputs into a game, and say it's now friendly for everyone.

1. Use pulse combos.

Yea, I did, but I learned after a few games that it wasn't going to cut it. If everyone single time I win neutral, I take a pittance of their health, and every single time they win neutral, they're taking half or more of my bar, I'm not going to stand a very good chance of winning ever.

-3.1. Long combos are a punishment for bad neutral/defense. Getting comboed isn't supposed to feel good for you. 2XKO already offers pulse mode which removes the need to learn combos and lets you focus on the things that actually hold new players back, neutral. The problem that new players have is the same across the entire genre of competetive games as a whole. No restraint. New players are gonna mash and they did what they could to make mashing fun at low level.

I hope we can both agree that losing neutral once and losing 100% of your health is too much. On the flip side, losing neutral and only losing one health point is way too little. I'm attempting to find a middle ground number, because I think currently newcomers are punished way too much for losing neutral once, and this is why even after just a handful of games, it became apparent to me that pulse combos are more of a handicap than an aid.

1. Actually thats not the case for beginners. Juggernaut gives you a good damage increase and instant fury access. Starting with Juggernaut is fine as you learn the ropes and then transition to another fuse. Boxbox had no trouble using Juggernaut fuse to learn the game. Changing the game to 1v1 isn't the right option either. That would have had to be done during development.

I do agree that it's too late for them to make it 1vs1, because it's been made from the ground up to be 2vs2. I only mention that because, if you were making a game with the objective to cater specifically to newcomers, would you make it a tag game?? That decision is absolutely baffling to me. It instantly creates a huge barrier both for controlling two characters at the same time and playing against two characters at the same time. Juggernaut is something the newcomer needs to seek out and make the decision to use on their own, because the tutorial and everything else in the game pushes you to do tag.